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Ominous start to the day.

PMease take a tiakgu, sure ok I’ll do that I guess.

Truly blessed to be sitting at a patio window with a warm cup of coffee, watching the sun rise and thinking about how I was absolutely, totally right about NFTs the entire time.

When North America, thank you Reagan, threw away our manufacturing economies, we also threw away our ability to understand how systems and processes of machines, machining and manufacturing, at any scale, actually work. Ironically in favour of "knowledge work", and a presumptive services economy.

My fear is that in the wholesale adoption of AI, we're following up that tectonic mistake by throwing away our ability to understand how knowledge works.

And... what's left after that?

Anything?

@codinghorror

True, but my point remains. This shitty experience we're collectively having here this isn't "the EU forcing cookie notification on people", it's "the malicious compliance of companies that profit from user tracking."

Every company that shows you an cookie popup has made the choice to put a few fractions of pennies of possible future profit ahead of your experience.

https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

@codinghorror That would be some of the propaganda you are not immune to.

The real litmus is simple: if the tool goes away, does the work stop?

Take away version control, CI tools, regression testing? Yeah, we're in weeds pretty quickly but maybe not immediately.

Take away the issue tracker? Red alert.

Editors and compilers go away? R-studio, Excel, Illustrator if those are your creative tools? Dead stop. Bird hitting a window dead.

Trello's down? No Asana? Enh, we'll be fine for a few days. A week or two. Or three.

When Slack's down people are relieved.

"Asana, Trello, all the project management tools. It’s just too much."

These are not productivity tools.

They are accountability tools trying to measure productivity, and they're trying to do it by shifting the scut work - the unpleasant, gritty burdens of actual management - on to the people being managed.

Buying Asana to boost productivity is like buying an odometer so your car goes faster.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/multitasking/

No disrespect to the old team, but... look, the words "manager", "leader" and "culture" don't appear this article at all. Same way they don't show up, mysteriously, when people are talking about burnout.

People can turn off notifications when their managers say they can then those managers don't interrupt them. People can stop multitasking when they can book uninterruptable hours to concentrate and the company culture normalizes, respects and encourages that.